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1. Reading Culture
Benefits of Reading
Dr. Mahendra Kamat

2. Types of Reading:
Skimming is a technique that allows you to
quickly read through a text and pick out the
main ideas. This is a useful skill when you need
to get an overview of a text or when you’re
looking for specific information.
Scanning is a technique that allows you to
quickly read through a text and find specific
information. This is a useful skill when you
need to find specific information in a text.

3. Types of Reading:
Intensive reading is a technique that allows
you to read a text slowly and carefully in order
to understand all the details and nuances. This
is a useful skill when you need to understand a
text in depth.
Extensive reading/speed reading is a
technique that allows you to read a text quickly.
This is a useful skill when you need to read a
lot of information in a short amount of time.

4. Benefits of Reading:
• Whether we choose the traditional reading
format of paperback and hardcover books or if
we go for modern solutions like audiobooks or
e-books, there is no question about it: reading
has a ton of benefits for us.
• Reading is equally effective in boosting both
our physical well-being and our mental health
and is appropriate for people of all ages.

5. Prospering Vocabulary
• Reading is equally effective in boosting both
our physical well-being and our mental health
and is appropriate for people of all ages.
• Exposes the reader to new words directly from
the read context and increasing your soft
skills.
• Vocabulary growth:more you read, the more
you expose yourself to new words that slowly
become a part of your usual repertoire.

6. Improves communication and conversation
skills
• Mind wander and explore different issues and stories.
Reading can help you become a better speaker.
• A good imagination and quality vocabulary gives an
upper hand when constructing simple and complex
sentences suited for different occasions.
• Most readers find it easy to express themselves, and
talking about their emotions and feelings or having
simple conversations is an effortless thing.

7. Reading: A Stress Relief Tool
•A novel or an article, a great story will distract you
from daily tasks and issues.
•A novel can transport you to another realm.
•An engaging article keeps you focused on the present;
the tension is automatically drained away.
•In 2009, the university of sussex carried out a
study and found that there was a 68% reduction in
stress levels by reading for only six minutes.

8. Reading Helps Relieve Depression
•Scruton, a British philosopher, said that the idea that
one can escape from reality is not imaginary
consolation.
•Depressed people always feel isolated and alienated
from others. Reading books and articles can help
minimize these feelings.
•Helps to escape your world and experience the fictional
adventures of the characters.
•Reading self-help books can allow patients with
depression to better understand themselves.

9. Slows Age-related Cognitive Decline
•American National Institute on Aging highly
recommends keeping one’s mind active by reading
books, magazines, and articles as one ages.
•Reading books helps seniors maintain their cognitive
function and prevents the occurrence of different
memory diseases like Alzheimer’s. (A study carried out
in 2013 by Rush University Medical Centre)

10. Reading Can Improve Imagination
•Person’s imagination can evolve and have various
impacts on his/her daily life.
•When most people think about imagination, they easily
relate it to art or children. It could be their drawings or
a composed piece of music.
•When a person read a book, one picture the entire novel
clearly identifying all the characters as the storyline and
this stimulates one’s brain.
•Imagination consists of all things that do not involve
our past or our present.

11. Reading Promotes Inclusivity
•Reading different fictional books helps to be more open-
minded, inclusive, and tolerant as one easily
understands and relates to another person’s story.
•Books can open up your mind towards understanding
different life phenomena and minimize the negative
perceptions we have towards people.
•Students who read about discrimination are more
inclusive, and decisive, and rarely discriminate against
other children; this also applies to adults.

12. Reading Helps to Become More Tolerant
•Fiction stories deal with diversified topics and one can
learn a lot from them about being more tolerant.
•Reading relaxes body and mind. Being less stressed
makes a better general state of mind which allows
person to better accept those around him.
•Exposing yourself to different life stories can help
someone better understand the struggles of other people
and project your knowledge into everyday life.

13. Novels Can Improve Analytical Skills
•The brain is constantly trying to sort and organize
information and reading simply makes it better at it.
•While following the story’s plot or imagining the possible
ending, you indirectly train yourself to organize, sort,
manage, conceptualize, visualize and manage
information.
•Develops the empirical ability of analysis at all times.

14. Non-fiction Teaches you Facts
•Reading non-fiction teaches concrete facts, instead of
letting imagination wander in imaginative universes.
•Non-fiction provides you with accurate information
or allows you to develop practical skills.
•Compartmentalize information will be incredibly
helpful in day-to-day life.

15. Reading Gives an Opportunity to Live Longer
•A study shows that the adults who actively read
books were more likely to live longer than those who
did not, with a difference of two years.
•The study also found that people who read more
than 3 hours a week lived longer than those who
were not enthusiastic readers.

16. Reading Improves Writing Skills
•The more you read, the better your writing skills will
become. That isn’t just because reading improves
your vocabulary but it also exposes you to an infinity
of ways to arrange your words to form sentences that
are more beautiful and easier to understand.
•More reading provides you more avenues of writing.
It exposes you to a vast treasury of syntax and
context.

17. Dr Mahendra Madhav Kamat,
Associate Professor and Head, Department of English,
Shri S. H. Kelkar College, Devgad, Sindhudurg (MS)
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